
Haydn Shaughnessy
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How The Ideas Platform Can Be A Response to Unemployment
Jobs are now part of the fluid, make-it-up-as-you-go-along economy. They are beyond Government control. We, the workforc...

The City As A Platform
Cities and regions have an abundance of options for marking themselves out as innovative. The problem is, most of their ...

Getting to grips with the business ecosystem
A lot of business these days relies on evolutionary language – just take a read of Tim Harford’s book Adapt. I also see...

What Precisely Does It Take To Be An Innovative Company?
You may have heard of the Thomson-Reuters Top 100 Most Innovative Companies. Or you may have heard of the Boston Consult...

How Citrix is Facing Up To Disruption
There are good reasons why many companies face disruption. Here is one of them. A few weeks back I was with Ericsson at ...

Is There a New Innovator’s Dilemma?
Senior executives live by the idea of disruption. It keeps them awake at night. Nobody wants to be the next Kodak or Nok...

Your Company Needs a Disruption Map
For some time now we’ve talked about the enterprise as more porous or externalised. In other words, the enterprise can n...

The benefits of standardization for innovation
It might seem unnecessarily provocative to say that innovation is a conservative profession but let me make the case for...

Can Challenges Be Structured Around Transformation?
My feeling about the routines of ideation are that they drive innovative thinkers either towards their favoured ideas (g...

Disruptive Innovation and the Retail Experience
June was the month when disruptive innovation became headline news, thanks to a take-down of Clayton Christensen’s theor...

The ecosystem era - Apple, Google and AllTheWeb
Innovation ecosystems are emerging as a topic of discussion in academic circles. I want to place them in context. For su...